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Hasen: The Tax Treatment of Advance Receipts
David M. Hasen (Michigan) has posted The Tax Treatment of Advance Receipts, 62 Tax L...

Should Greenhouse Gas Permits Be Allocated On a Per Capita Basis?
Suppose that a climate treaty is negotiated and that (as is expected) the treaty provides for a cap-and-trade system: every state will be allocated permits that can be auctioned off or given to firms...

Pogue on The Gross Receipts Tax: A New Approach to Business Taxation?
Thomas F. Pogue (University of Iowa, Department of Economics) has published The Gross Receipts Tax: A New Approach to Business Taxation?, 60 Nat'l Tax J...

Watch those receipts
Federal Law Requires All Businesses to Truncate Credit Card Information on ReceiptsBeSpacific...

Best Firms for Women--Round II
I noted a month ago that Working Women magazine has come out with it's second annual list of best law firms for women...

Sauce for the Goose
The USPTO electronic filing system (EFS) requires that all submitted pdf documents have embedded fonts...

How can I prove my child support payments are up-to-date?
If she is signing reciepts, then that is proof for any court that he has paid an...

Whole Foods
And Other Firms Sued by California Attorney General,

Wegmans Food Market
alleging the retailer revealed too much information on their credit and debit card receipts, violating the FACTA law, and leaving customers open to identity theft

Brown Greer et al.
alleging that the six law firms handling the Vioxx settlement failed to provide money for reimbursements to lien rights of Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) health plans.